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Post by goldtopsnopp on Feb 12, 2005 10:34:17 GMT -5
goldtopsnopp: yes, we do  and the keyhole joke is a well known one  Aww! I knew we weren't the only ones. We also have some norwegian words here. Like guleböj for banana. and for those of you that aren't from up north, gul is yellow and böj is bend. Guleböj made me think that maybe you say bruneböj to crap in your country. Since brun is brown and all... |
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Post by jeje on Feb 12, 2005 21:52:09 GMT -5
Aww! I knew we weren't the only ones. We also have some norwegian words here. Like guleböj for banana. and for those of you that aren't from up north, gul is yellow and böj is bend. Guleböj made me think that maybe you say bruneböj to crap in your country. Since brun is brown and all... Huh? I've never heard guleböj (that would be "gulebøy" to be correct) used for banana its called "Banan" here, too and 'bajs' is 'bæsj'  Now this is what I call an intelligent and stimulating conversation on guitars! |
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Post by goldtopsnopp on Feb 13, 2005 6:12:08 GMT -5
It sure is!  I allways suspected that guleböj is only for making you look weird. But if it is "baejs" in norway, does that mean that you pronounce it "bäjs"? That sound kinda Danish. Don't you have any "swedish" words in norway? |
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Post by jeje on Feb 14, 2005 7:21:15 GMT -5
Hehe, it's pronounced "bæsj", or as in english "bash". And most of our written language and the dialects close to that, stem from danish, after the union with them. So we have a lot i common with them as far as language (especially written) goes.. Swedish words, hmm, I guess we're more influenced by you than you are of us, since we get a lot of swedish TV channels here.. I've noticed where I live (Sarpsborg), teenagers use "lugn" alot. I don't remember anything else right now.. There was a study some years back, on understanding of languages in scandinavia, which concluded that norwegians have a much easier time reading and hearing danish and swedish probably because of the unions and stuff.. |
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Post by goldtopsnopp on Feb 14, 2005 13:03:51 GMT -5
Bash, eh? I think i will start using that word now. We dont often use norwegian words in sweden, but many sound kinda like. It's more difficult to understand danish since they sound so f##n angry. But i read german at school and it is a very useable language, if you want to say rubbertree for instance, you can easily guess that it's called "gummibaum". I wish all languages were as easy...
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Post by jeje on Feb 14, 2005 14:49:34 GMT -5
Yeah, I had german, too, for four long years all the languages in the germanic(germanske) linguistic family are very much the same, vocabulary-wise.. and since a lot of languages are derived from latin, thats a really good helper if you want to understand language, I think.. |
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Post by goldtopsnopp on Feb 14, 2005 15:54:07 GMT -5
Yes, it is kinda good that all these north countries have so much in common. It's not hard to understand a german text or a norwegian(I don't know how thats for you) text...
It suddenly hit me, how could we get from talking about zeppelin to discussing languages? Must be because of the global warming...
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and the keyhole joke is a well known one 
Now this is what I call an intelligent and stimulating conversation on guitars!